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A Conversation with Mathieu Amalric
The legendary actor and director — most recently behind HOLD ME TIGHT — discusses his life in film: cinephilia, blindspots, and the gap (or unity) between creating and loving art.
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Episodic Cinema
7 seasons
A collection of great extended cinema—international series and miniseries from Bruno Dumont, Agnieszka Holland, Miguel Gomes, Jacques Rivette and Michele Placido.
Series include:
ARABIAN NIGHTS
BURNING BUSH
COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA HUMANS
LI'L QUINQUIN
OUT 1
PROUD
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Cosmos
Movie
Andrzej Zulawski • France • 2015 • A remarkable finale from the director of Possession
Witwold, who has just failed the bar, and Fuchs, who has quit his job in fashion, are friends. They are both staying at a guesthouse run by Madame Woytis, mother to the incandescent Lena, who has recently been...
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Playdurizm
Movie
Gem Deger • Czech Republic • 2020 • An intoxicating blend of fantasy, violence, passion and control
Demir wakes up one day in an unfamiliar apartment with no memory. He scurries out only to be stopped by Andrew, who assures Demir that they're roommates. Settling into this new reality, Demir qu...
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Hyenas
Movie
Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal • 1992 • A 2K restoration of Mambéty's landmark in Senegalese cinema
Once poor, Linguère is now fabulously wealthy. She returns to her impoverished hometown to propose a deal to the local populace—her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier ...
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Foreign Language Oscar Submissions: All Films
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Filmatique presents Foreign Language Oscar Submissions, a collection of films that provides a countervailing vision of world cinema––one more vibrant and diverse than the Academy might have us think––and seeks to present a more diverse and expansive vision of international cinema by celebrating f...
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Luzzu
Movie
Alex Camilleri • Malta & USA • 2021 • A remarkable neorealist drama.
Jesmark comes from a long line of Maltese fishermen. Like his father and grandfather before him, he ekes out a meager existence on his luzzu, a traditional fishing boat, that has now begun to take on water. As the breadwinner f...
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Sophie Hyde Presents...
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The director of 52 TUESDAYS and GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE has curated her favorite titles on Filmatique.
"I have put together a list of 5 and I'm a little embarrassed that all of these are made by men. I would normally be very mindful of it, but in truth I don't know most of the films directe...
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Atom Egoyan Presents...
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The legendary filmmaker recommends "ten films which have left a strong sense visual impression."
"This is such a wealth of great films here, and there are so many I haven’t seen and now have a chance to discover. For my list, I’m suggesting ten films which have left a strong sense visual impress...
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Rick Alverson Presents...
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The celebrated American filmmaker shares his favorite titles streaming on Filmatique.
"There was a window in the early 2000’s, just before I picked up a camera again—after a decade away from the courage and thought of ever making a film—that I felt changed by a series of movies I saw. They seem...
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Maya Deren
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Born in Kyiv, Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. She was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. This collection of Deren's sem...
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Sean Baker Presents...
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The great American filmmaker behind THE FLORIDA PROJECT, RED ROCKET, and recent Criterion release TAKE OUT shared his favorite titles on Filmatique:
"Curating a collection is honestly one of the most high-pressure jobs a cinephile can have. It is a balancing act between trying to celebrate the c...
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Coincoin and the Extra-Humans
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Bruno Dumont • France • 2018
In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up to Li’l Quinquin, the surly French boy is all grown up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D’Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso while his old love, Eve, has ...
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Romanzo Criminale
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Michele Placido • Italy • 2005
Il Libanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. Alongside his accomplices Dandi and Freddo, Il Libanese assembles a ruthless and highly organized gang of criminals who will, he hopes, achieve unprecedented control of the city. Over the course of twenty-...
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Filmatique at NYFF
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The New York Film Festival has long been a paragon of the year in cinema, curating premier selections from Berlin, Rotterdam, Cannes, Locarno, and Venice into a package that leaves little room for trifles or flukes. Filmatique, accordingly, hosts many titles from NYFFs past, and as Lincoln Center...
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Mathieu Amalric Presents...
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When we asked Mathieu Amalric, director of Hold Me Tight, to provide a list of his favorite films on our service, he turned it around.
As he told us:
Ahhh Filmatique.
Extraordinary platform, bravo!
So many things I didn’t know about or always wanted to see and never did, that it gave me an idea....